Kenneth W. Starr said today that he would drop all charges against two women he had accused of hindering his investigation of President Clinton but was unable to convict in trials that ended in bitter setbacks for the independent counsel's office. ...

After jury members twice described themselves as ''hopelessly deadlocked,'' a Federal judge declared a mistrial today in the obstruction of justice trial of Julie Hiatt Steele, the Richmond woman who played a peripheral role in Kenneth W. Starr's...

The trial of Julie Hiatt Steele, who is accused of obstructing the independent counsel's investigation of President Clinton, moved swiftly to the jury today after Ms. Steele's lawyers declined to call any witnesses. The three days of prosecution...

May 7, 1999, Friday

Kathleen E. Willey testified today that she had repeatedly told her former friend Julie Hiatt Steele about an unwelcome sexual encounter with President Clinton at the White House in November 1993 and that Ms. Steele had offered to corroborate the...

May 6, 1999, Thursday

A former White House volunteer, Kathleen E. Willey, testified today that she had confided to her friend Julie Hiatt Steele in November 1993 that President Clinton had made a ''very forceful'' sexual advance in the White House. But Ms. Willey said...

A Virginia woman who undercut accusations that President Clinton groped a White House volunteer, Kathleen E. Willey, lied about the incident to make money, prosecutors told a jury today. Defense lawyers countered that Kenneth W. Starr, the...

In a Federal courtroom here on Monday, Kenneth W. Starr's prosecutors will begin the trial of the first and only person to be charged with a crime related to the sprawling sex and perjury investigation that led to President Clinton's impeachment. ...

Two parts of the wide-ranging investigation of President Clinton converged here today, when a woman testified in behalf of a former business partner of the President and his wife, Hillary. The woman, Julie Hiatt Steele of Richmond, who says she...

The judge in Susan H. McDougal's criminal contempt trial decided today to permit testimony from a Virginia woman who says Kenneth W. Starr prosecuted her because she had undercut the testimony of a Presidential accuser. Ms. McDougal's lawyer,...

The independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr won a court fight today to keep sealed much of the evidence in an obstruction-of-justice case stemming from his investigation of President Clinton. Mr. Starr's office had argued that there was a danger that...